Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Resoluting

Is resoluting not a word?! Spell check seems to think it is not a real word. But I am making it one. Resoluting - the act of following your resolutions, New Year's or not.

My one true resolution this year was to cook more. I decided on this goal because currently, I pretty much never cook. I don't know when or why I gave up on preparing meals of any sort, but it's a slump I've been in for a few months now. This means all of the following:

a) Dinner around here pretty much is whatever Mark or I find to eat on our own. He might take the time to prepare a sandwich or nachos, or even cook up some chicken or chili, but me? I just eat whatever is quick and easy. I am not a patient in the kitchen. When I am hungry, I want to eat NOW, so it usually means I'll make a Lean Cuisine in the microwave or eat cereal.

b) I never have anything to eat for lunch, so I end up bringing things to work like granola bars, bags of goldfish and a tortilla. Some days I come to school with nothing at all to eat, and then I have to scavenge around for snacks. (I have zero time to run out and get lunch). This makes for a hungry afternoon.

c) The above make it pretty obvious: my eating habits are dreadful and far from healthy.

So I am resoluting to COOK MORE and eat less crap. Following along this same line, I want to be healthy this year. I have actually lost weight since August {turns out running around all day and having zero break time means that I eat less during the day, who would have thought} but I have not done any type of excercise since this summer, when my work hours were later and I could go for a run before work. So I headed over to the YMCA last weekend and signed up for a free week's pass. If I feel like I can actually work trips to the Y into my routine, thus making the membership dues worthwhile, then I'll officially join when my week is up. So far, so good. The Y is literally next door to my school (read: SUPER EASY to go to after work) and less than five minutes from my house (read: SUPER EASY to go to all the time), so I'm hoping I can get back in the groove of working out. Plus, this Y is way nice with fancy TV's on the cardio machines and an indoor {and outdoor} swimming pool. Way more perks than the McKinney YMCA.

Besides cooking in the kitchen and kicking booty at the gym, I am also back in school again, taking my last two classes this spring {yay!}. So far, I like them both, but LOVE one of them - a class on Children and Young Adult Literature. I get to read lots of books and blog about them, which hello, are two of my favorite things to do! I'm going to have zero free time until May, but hey, I like it that way. Or at least I am telling myself that now!